CS-IVR – Canadian Section of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy

Information on the activities of the Canadian Section of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy

Call for Papers: The Canadian Section of the IVR (CS-IVR) will meet as an affiliate of the CPA At The University of Ottawa, Ontario, Saturday May 30, 2015

The CS-IVR accepts papers devoted to subjects in law and legal theory and moral and political theory. Submitted papers (and commentaries on them) are circulated (password protected) via the IVR Website (http://phil.uregina.ca/cs-ivr) and the authors and commentators briefly summarize their points to open discussions at the meeting. See http://phil.uregina.ca/cs-ivr/about.html for further information about CS-IVR meetings.

There is no specific theme for this year’s meeting. However, we would welcome papers on the theme of the next International meeting of the IVR in Washington, DC, July 27 to Aug1, 2015: Law, Reason and Emotion. (The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the Washington IVR meeting is March 15, 2015; see http://www.ivr2015.org/ for more information.)

Deadlines for the Ottawa Meeting:

  • Friday, February 6 20, 2015: commitment to send a principal paper or commentary. To help with organizing, please send nbrett@dal.ca a note indicating that you intend to present a principal paper or commentary. Brief abstracts of principal papers should also be sent. A reminder will be sent in early February.
  • Friday, May 1: All principal papers should be submitted for circulation
  • Friday, May 22: All commentaries should be submitted for circulation
  • Meeting on Saturday, May 30 starting at 8:30 AM in Lamoureux (LMX) 407 (University of Ottawa)

Principal papers (up to 10,000 words) and commentaries (up to 1200 words) should be sent to the CVS IVR webmaster David Elliot (elliotda@uregina.ca), with a copy to (nbrett@dal.ca).

Nathan Brett, Executive Director

Please forward this call for papers to others who may be interested. If you wish to post this call for papers please print the attached copy.

Schedule (PDF is available)

8:30- 8:45 Arrival and Introductions

Equality, Justice and Constraints on Religious Tolerance

8:45 – 9:10 1. Charles-Maxime Panaccio (Ottawa) Solving Section 15: Comments and/or Discussion

9:10 – 9:35 2. Kyle Johansen (Queens) Justice in Personal Choice: Cohen’s Equivocal Attack on Rawls’s Basic Structure Restriction: Comments and/or Discussion

9:35 – 10:00 3. Colin Macleod (Victoria) and Samantha Brennan (Western) Liberalism, Child Welfare, and the Problem Posed by Religious, Conservative Parents: Comments and/or Discussion

10:20 – 10:15 Break

Consent to Sex, Arson and the Intoxication Defense

10:15 – 10:40 4. Alex Wellington (Ryerson) Yes Means Yes, or Does It? Complexities of Consent for Women’s Reproductive and Sexual Labour: Comments and/or Discussion

10:40 – 11:05 5. Nathan Brett (Dalhousie) Jack’s Mistake about Jill’s Consent: Comments and/or Discussion

11:05 – 11:30 6. Susan Dimock (York) The Law’s Too Hard, Let’s Go Get Drunk! Taking the Opportunity to Improve our Intoxication Law: Comments and/or Discussion

11:30 – 12:00 Business Meeting 

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

Harm, Human Rights, Privacy and Security

1:00 – 1:25 7. Andrew Molas (York) The Harm Principle: Comparing Concepts of Harm: Comments and/or Discussion

1:25 – 1:50 8. Alistair Macleod (Queens) Human Rights and Justice: Against Human Rights Minimalism: Comments and/or Discussion

1:50 – 2:15 9. Eldon Soifer and David Elliot (Regina) Privacy and Deception: Comments and/or Discussion

2:15 – 2:40 10. Lucan Gregory (Dept. of Justice) National Security as a Public Human Right: Comments and/or Discussion

Break 2:40 – 3:00

Collective Responsibility, Judges, and Govenments, Global Law

3:00 – 3:25 11. Jennifer Szende (Queens) Collective Responsibility and Environmental Justice: Comments and/or Discussion

3:25 – 3:50 12. Barry Hoffmaster (Western) The Rationality of Judging: Comments and/or Discussion

3:50 – 4:15 13. Conor Barry (Ottawa) Grammar and Governmentality: Comments and/or Discussion

4:15 – 4:40 14. Jorge Luis Fabra Zamora (McMaster) Global Law: Comments and/or Discussion

7:00 Dinner at the NAC Café, on the Canal

Papers Received (Login required.)

List of Abstracts 

  1. Conor Barry, “Grammar and Governmentality”
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  2. Samantha Brennan and Colin Macleod, “Fundamentally Incompetent: Homophodia, Religion, and the Right to Parent”
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  3. Nathan Brett, “Jack’s Mistake about Jill’s Consent”
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  4. Susan Dimock, “Law’s Too Hard: Let’s Go Get Drunk! Taking the Opportunity to Improve our Intoxication Law”
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  5. Jorge Fabra, “A Concept of Global Law: The Fundamental Laws of the International Community”
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  6. Lucan Gregory, “National Security as a Public Human Right”
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  7. Barry Hoffmaster, “The Rationality of Judging”
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  8. Kyle Johannsen, “Two Pictures of Narrowness: Justice as a Value and Justice as Institutional”
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  9. Alistair Macleod, “Human Rights and Justice: A Critique of Minimalism”
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  10. Andrew Molas, “The Harm Principle: Comparing Husak and Simester & von Hirsch’s Conception of Harm “
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  11. Charles-Maxime Panaccio, “Solving Section 15”
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  12. Eldon Soifer and David Elliott, “Privacy and Deception”
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  13. Jennifer Szende, “Collective Responsibility and Environmental Justice”
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  14. Alex Wellington, “Yes Means Yes, or Does It? Complexities of Consent for Women’s Reproductive and Sexual Labour”
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Commentaries

  1. Nathan Brett, “Intoxication, Recklessness and Defenses: Comments on Dimock”
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  2. Eldon Soifer, “Comments on Brennan and MacLeod, ‘Fundamentally Incompetent: Homophobia, Religion and the Right to Parent’”
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